I think it kind of depends on how important affiliate traffic is viewed by the casinos. If it is viewed as a possible substantial loss, and you got enough affiliates to go along with not promoting the casinos that use this, that might have an effect.
The problem then is getting enough affiliates to do this to cancel out some of the bigger ones that will continue to do so. It’s hard really to blame some affiliates and/or casinos for using it when they’ve lost business in the past and figure join them instead of being beat by them. Standing in a circle, shooting each other in the foot describes it well though.
Since there appears to be no regulation or organized fight against this, the best thing is to do what you’re doing now. Get information out. I had never heard of this until reading this thread. As a result, I’m not going to continue to promote casinos that steal my other customers. If they’re willing to pay out the money to do this then I have no doubt they are cheating in other ways.
The only other possible solution is a technical one. I don’t know if it can be done but if the casinos could develop something to halt redirects from their site then that would solve this too. The scumware people are able redirect our casinos’ traffic, why couldn’t the casinos themselves come up with something to redirect the thief’s ads right back? You know how sometimes you go to a site and you can’t hit you’re back button-it kind of traps you on the site? Something like that.
Thanks for the information. Anybody got a list of programs that don’t use this stuff?